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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 57, Issue -, Pages 91-100Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.11.016
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irrigation bureaucracies; irrigation system performance; policy reform; hydraulic mission; farmer agency interface
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Poor performance of government-managed irrigation systems persists in developing countries despite numerous policy interventions over the last four decades. We argue that many of these interventions have failed, because they did not recognize irrigation bureaucracies as prime actors in policy change. This paper examines the varied actors and agendas within irrigation bureaucracies, highlighting the dichotomy between hydraulic missions on the one hand and direct service provision to farmers on the other. To increase the significance of future reform, bureaucracies must be considered as explicit actors, and reform efforts should derive from better understanding of the farmer agency interface. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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